# least access

Apps, websites, and services get only the access the task needs. Trackers get none.

## Practices using this concept

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### [Block trackers and ads](https://live.freewithtech.com/practices/block-trackers-and-ads.md)

Attention and behavior shouldn't automatically feed advertising and tracking systems across browsers, apps, and accounts.

**Start small:** Enable tracker blocking in your browser, or turn off tracking permission and personalized ads on your phone.

### [Use email aliases for online accounts](https://live.freewithtech.com/practices/use-email-aliases-for-online-accounts.md)

A separate address for each kind of account makes it harder for companies to link your activity and lets you cut off unwanted mail at its source.

**Start small:** Use an email alias for your next newsletter, store, or online account.

### [Reject optional cookies](https://live.freewithtech.com/practices/reject-optional-cookies.md)

Accessing a requested function shouldn't imply consent to unrelated tracking.

**Start small:** On the next consent banner, choose the option that keeps only necessary cookies.

### [Grant apps limited access](https://live.freewithtech.com/practices/grant-apps-limited-access.md)

When an app asks for permission, you're deciding how much of your device it can get into.

**Start small:** The next time an app asks for your photos, choose limited access or deny access.

### [Keep other people's data out of your AI](https://live.freewithtech.com/practices/keep-other-peoples-data-out-of-your-ai.md)

Your messages, contacts, photos, and email are full of other people, and they never agreed to an AI reading them.

**Start small:** Check whether one AI app on your phone can read your contacts or messages, and turn that access off.

### [Review connected apps and permissions](https://live.freewithtech.com/practices/review-connected-apps-and-permissions.md)

Connected apps can retain access to sensitive accounts and data after their original purpose has ended.

**Start small:** Open the connected-apps page for one important account and remove one integration you no longer use.

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